Alcatel-Lucent Next-Generation Business IP VPN Solution

Overview

Meeting modern enterprises’ IP VPN demands rapidly and efficiently.

Today, more than ever before, enterprise IT departments are under pressure to deliver more with less. Company executives want their organisations to take full advantage of technology to enhance operations, improve communications and build customer service, but they also want to minimise operating costs.

At the same time, the nature of Enterprise IP WAN services is changing, with the increasing dominance of emerging unified communication and multimedia collaboration technologies leading to Enterprise 2.0 applications and services. These new services need to be available from any location anytime. The new point-to-point or multipoint services, which often have video or multimedia components, add to the pressure on the service provider's infrastructure, as they require more bandwidth, higher quality levels, improved reach, customer management and greater scalability.

To meet today's dynamic enterprise demands, service providers need to refresh their network infrastructures and adopt a more efficient, flexible, scalable and feature-rich networking solution. They need to transition their infrastructures to support an all-IP architecture, with multi-access multiservice IP VPN. This new architecture needs to support a broad mix of services from a single platform to improve cost efficiency and operational simplicity. By reducing the complexity of the network, service providers can deliver services more efficiently and achieve significant capital and operational savings.

This paper looks at the evolving requirements for a next-generation IP network. It then describes the Alcatel-Lucent Business IP VPN Solution, Alcatel-Lucent's industry-leading solution for this market space.